Victor Ratier


Charles-Victor-Hilaire Ratier was a 19th-century French lithographer, playwright and printer.

Biography

The son of a librarian in the Conseil d'État, Ratier became a teacher of English in the high school of Bourges. He later abandoned this occupation, became a journalist at the Journal du Cher, then a lithographer and printer, patented in Paris on 14 February 1829 in succession to Pierre-François Ducarme.
In 1829, he founded with the lithographer printer Sylvestre Nicolas Durier the illustrated periodical '.
He made numerous lithographs and engravings for theatrical publications and magazines, including Album pour rire or Miroir des dames, and many poster prints. He was also the printer and translator of English-language novels, including Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe and Evangeline by Henry Longfellow.
By his profession, letters were addressed to him by important personalities like Honoré [de Balzac] who was a friend.
His plays, including some written under the pseudonym Victor Benoît''' were presented on the most important Parisian stages of his time: Théâtre du Panthéon, Théâtre de l'Ambigu-Comique etc.

Theatre works